{"id":1028,"date":"2023-07-21T13:30:48","date_gmt":"2023-07-21T18:30:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mcdc.missouri.edu\/news\/?p=1028"},"modified":"2026-03-19T09:38:50","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T14:38:50","slug":"demographic-and-housing-characteristics-data-added-to-mcdcs-collection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mcdc.missouri.edu\/news\/demographic-and-housing-characteristics-data-added-to-mcdcs-collection\/","title":{"rendered":"Demographic and Housing Characteristics Data Added to MCDC&#8217;s Collection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Missouri Census Data Center is pleased to announce that we&#8217;ve added the new Demographic and Housing Characteristics (DHC) data to our census data archives. The collection is located in the <a href=\"https:\/\/mcdc.missouri.edu\/applications\/uexplore.php?\/data\/dhc2020\">\/data\/dhc2020<\/a> directory and is also accessible from our <a href=\"https:\/\/mcdc.missouri.edu\/applications\/uexplore.html\">data portal page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Demographic and Housing Characteristics data was released by the U.S. Census Bureau in May 2023. This is one of the main data products based on the 2020 decennial census.<\/p>\n<p>As in 2010, there was only a short form questionnaire in 2020, so the DHC tables contain just basic demographics (age, sex, race \/ ethnicity, household types, etc.). The DHC is more or less equivalent to Summary File 1 from the 2010 and earlier censuses, and contains many of the same tables and variables as SF1, although there are some differences.<\/p>\n<p>This data will become the source for MCDC&#8217;s DHC standard extract (or &#8220;profiles&#8221;) \u2014 our custom set of key variables for useful geographic area types \u2014 which should be ready within a month or so.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Missouri Census Data Center is pleased to announce that we&#8217;ve added the new Demographic and Housing Characteristics (DHC) data to our census data archives. The collection is located in the \/data\/dhc2020 directory and is also accessible from our data portal page. The Demographic and Housing Characteristics data was released by the U.S. Census Bureau [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[89,42,45,22,70],"tags":[86,73,119],"class_list":["post-1028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-data-updates","category-demographics","category-housing","category-news","category-united-states","tag-census","tag-census-2020","tag-dhc"],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcdc.missouri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcdc.missouri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcdc.missouri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcdc.missouri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcdc.missouri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1028"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mcdc.missouri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1028\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1134,"href":"https:\/\/mcdc.missouri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1028\/revisions\/1134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcdc.missouri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcdc.missouri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcdc.missouri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}